Resources
Every template, checklist, and script below comes from the same system I used to finish my PhD on schedule and publish 20 papers — not because I'm unusually fast, but because I stopped reinventing the method each time and let a few good templates do the work.
Right now all of them are free for subscribers. Grab whatever solves the problem in front of you today.
🗂 Note-taking & organizing your research
From Notes to First Draft A 5-step system plus two fill-in templates that turn a pile of literature notes into a written section — without staring at a blank page. This is the one to start with.
✍️ Writing & revising the paper
The Five-Sentence Skeleton Template Test whether your paper's whole argument holds together in about ten minutes — five labelled sentences and a logic check — before you write a word of prose.
The Research-Question Matching Worksheet A worksheet that turns the notes you already have into one sharp, answerable research question — before you commit months to the wrong project.
The Collaboration Request Template A ready-to-adapt message for asking a co-author, supervisor, or statistician for help — so the ask is specific, respectful of their time, and easy to say yes to.
The Reviewer Reply Kit A fill-in response-to-reviewers letter and a copy-paste phrase bank for handling any peer-review comment three ways: incorporate it, rebut it, or pivot.
The 20-Point Final Polish Checklist The last-pass checklist for the twenty small things reviewers notice — run it over the manuscript before you submit.
📊 Statistics & reproducibility
The Power Simulation R Script A general-purpose, simulation-based power-analysis engine in R. Pick the analysis you're running, plug in the effect you expect, and get the sample size you actually need — no closed-form formula required. Pairs with:
The Reproducible Report Starter Five small copy-paste files (Quarto/RMarkdown) that build a Word document in which every number is produced by your code. Change the data, re-render, and everything updates itself — nothing typed by hand.